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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24705688, member: 26430&quot;]Greek <b>OWL</b> coins? Many coins have owls, but do you mean the Athens Tetradrachm, like the type below:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]1578437[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1578438[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1578439[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>Just to double-check</b></i>... Lemme know if I misunderstood.</p><p>But if that&#039;s what you mean:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;owl&quot; (as it&#039;s nicknamed) does not depict Herakles or Alexander III. Instead, as un-feminine as it looks, the front of the coin depicts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena" rel="nofollow"><font size="4"><b>Athena [see Wikipedia for her story]</b></font></a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Athena: Greek goddess of warfare &amp; wisdom, and patron deity for Athens. She tends to wear a crested helmet &amp; earrings. On this coin type she&#039;s got weird Archaic bulge-y eyes (some people find them attractive), but she worked on that, and in later centuries developed much cuter features &amp; also slimmed down a bit.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578437[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s her creepy bug-eyed pet <b>owl</b>.</p><p>Actually, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_of_Athena" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_of_Athena" rel="nofollow">&quot;Owl of Athena&quot;</a> is a divine &quot;attribute&quot; of Athena -- a totem, symbol representing her qualities, and so it also became the &quot;badge&quot; or emblem of the city, Athens.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578438[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure if she ever revealed whether the owl was male, female, or other. Or ever revealed its name. I suspect it&#039;s a female owl named Larry. And Athena&#039;s wisdom &amp; strength come from eating Larry&#039;s eggs for breakfast every morning.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578439[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(That owl had its acting debut in the movie <i>Clash of the Titans</i> (1981,<i> <b>not</b></i> 2010), which is why I became fascinated with this type and made it my first ever ancient coin purchase -- possibly second purchase, the other being an Alexander the Great Tetradrachm, both in the late 1980s Paris.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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